Analysis of A Solider by Robert Frost

I Analysis A Soldier by Robert Frost. The poem was about a soldier who fell in a battle. The title is relevant because it is the soldier. Frost use metaphors in A Soldier such as he is that fallen lance. Robert use Rhyming throughout the poem. Rust dust, hurled world, and mark arc. I believe the speaker was a by passer walking by a battle field. The shift occurs in line 6 were the speaker changes subjects from the soldier to wars. I felt the theme is that we should not forget the people who died to make the world how it is today.

A Solider

He is that fallen lance that lies hurled,

That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,

But still lies pointed as it plowed the dust.

If we who sight along it round the world,

See nothing worthy to have been its mark,

It is because like men we look too near,

Forgeting that as fitted to the sphere,

Our missiles always make too short an arc.

They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect

The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;

They make us cringe for metal-point on stone.

But this we know, the obstacle that checked

And tripped the body, shot the spirit on

Further than target ever showed or shone.